"You know, not far from the White House is a statue of the great liberator, Simon Bolivar, " Bush said.
Some of his ideas seem almost frivolously irrelevant (such as renaming the country after Simon Bolivar, its independence hero).
ALBA, which is named after the 19th century independence leader Simon Bolivar, is opening an office in the southeast Peruvian city of Puno.
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She is part of the Bolivarian militia, named after independence hero Simon Bolivar and created by Mr Chavez to give military training to civilian volunteers.
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Venezuelan-born Dudamel is himself a product of El Sistema, and is also music director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the flagship of El Sistema.
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The people of Pasto told Simon Bolivar nearly 200 years ago that they preferred to stay with Spain, thank you, and many citizens remain proud of it.
The former vice-president began the funeral ceremony by presenting Mr Chavez's coffin with the sword of Simon Bolivar - the 19th-Century independence leader he claimed as his inspiration.
But among all the nominees in this year's Latin Grammys, an album that deserves several awards is Fiesta by Gustavo Dudamel, conducting the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
You could put a high valuation, for instance, on the feedback from the Cultural Olympiad's concert in Stirling last month, where Venezuela's renowned Simon Bolivar Orchestra performed in the rain.
And at 18, he became the music director of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra the top ensemble in Venezuela's "El Sistema" network of more than 125 youth orchestras.
He announced that he would ask the national assembly to change the constitution on Tuesday to allow Mr Chavez's body to lie beside that of 19th Century South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar.
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The centuries-old dream of Independence hero Simon Bolivar to build a unified "Patria Grande" (Grand Homeland) in South America became Chavez's guiding light and he held it high, illuminating the path he paved.
Since his death, the former paratrooper has been compared to Jesus Christ and early-19th century Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar, and the government announced that his body would be embalmed and put on eternal display.
Some 300 people watched the funeral on screens set up in the Simon Bolivar plaza in Chavez's plains hometown of Sabaneta, where mourners had laid out flowers, candles and photos of the late leader.
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who will be sworn in as interim president later Friday, laid a replica of the sword that South American hero Simon Bolivar used on top of Chavez's flag-draped casket.
In a message delivered by video early this year, the FARC invoked Simon Bolivar's name as a role model and a liberator of oppressed people and as a supporter of continental unity.
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Yet his most important goal was the building of an alliance among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that would fulfil the frustrated dream of his great hero, South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, two centuries before.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Hugo Chavez was lauded as a modern-day reincarnation of Latin American liberator Simon Bolivar at a fiery, foot-stomping state funeral Friday, hours before his handpicked successor was sworn in as acting president over the fierce objections of the opposition.
According to Bloomberg, the Libyan delegation delivered a letter from the embattled Gadhafi to his South American ally, Chavez, who has compared the Libyan leader to Simon Bolivar, one of the most important figures in the South American emancipation campaigns against the Spanish in the XIX century.
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